Best Ignorance Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

“Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.”

“The book of truth is not a book of answers, the book of truth is a book of questions.”

“Mindfulness (A poem)”

“Ignorance is a fine line that separates right and wrong.”

“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.”

“...it doesn’t make any difference. Whether we’re being lied to or not, we still have to get up and go to work and pay the bills and all the rest.”

“To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer.”

“But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.”

“It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic view and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.”

“We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.”

“After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.”

“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with our own preconceived ideas and aprioristic conceptions. ("The hidden sides of his character" )”

“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”

“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”

“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”

“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”

“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”

“The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.”

“When I visited”

“There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist”

“There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it”

“A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.”

“A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.”

“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

“There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.”

“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,”